Month: June 2010

  • It is our critical collective need to be able to think the supposedly “unthinkable”, and imagine the “unimaginable”, that is driving the merger of futures and design practices. Futures provides a big-picture context and sense of the stakes for design work, and design brings concreteness and communicative effectiveness to futures. Together they can do far…

  • http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf Don Norman at IIT Design Research Conference 2010 (by IIT Institute of Design) The Research-Practice Gulf There is a great gulf between the research community and practice. Moreover, there is often a great gull between what designers do and what industry needs. We believe we know how to do design, but this belief is…

  • Dangerous Minds | William Burroughs: Words Of Advice For Young People (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Nike Breaks Own Viral Record With World Cup Ad – Advertising Age – Digital: Viral Video Charts

    Nike Breaks Own Viral Record With World Cup Ad – Advertising Age – Digital: Viral Video Charts Advertising Age tracks the success of recent attempts (and successes) at having a promotional video “go viral”. Nike’s “Write the Future” short film was “leaked” twenty-four hours before its “public release.”

  • Designing The “World Of Programming” Infographic – Smashing Magazine

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  • She was certainly not the first person I’d heard this from. I hear this almost everywhere I go where there are people talking about social media, and I feel that it is time that I rise up against it. In fact, I did, right there and then. I grabbed the microphone from her grasp and…

  • Resolving the iPhone resolution | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine 1) What is “resolution”, really? Imagine you see a vehicle coming toward you on the highway from miles away. Is it a motorcycle with one headlight, or a car with two? As the vehicle approaches, the light splits into two, and you see it’s the…

  • If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable. Robert Rodriguez  Robert Rodriguez speaks the truth. (via roomthily) (via feltron, ronenreblogs) Filed under, ‘need to cross-stitch onto pillow asap’; right after ‘get technical’. Oh, and ‘get creative.’ (via stillastar) (via lonegunman)

  • Design symmetrical character art – Illustrator Tutorial – Digital Arts

    Design symmetrical character art – Illustrator Tutorial – Digital Arts